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I have to say, I just love the Ira Cleese edition of Meditations.
I must own nearly every version of Meditations in print
but yours is by far the most useful and engaging. Now, I've never studied Greek
and being able to click a Greek word here and there
to get its meaning is something I didn't expect to use.
Well, was I wrong... For fun I tried clicking a few words
in that famous line from book 12 that says, “If it is not right, don't do it: if it
is not true, do not say it...” Well, I found the words for "do not do it"
and the translation gave me more than I expected. It seems Marcus Aurelius was saying, don't
enable wrong or don't make it your practice to do wrong.
To me that conveys a deeper meaning than just not doing wrong.
He's saying don't be the kind of person that does wrong. Don't embody wrong.
I can go on and on and I guess that's the point.
In a nutshell, Ira Cleese's edition of Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
by Practicum Publishing is just brilliant.